Read more about the article Family of missing unionist launches network for search campaign
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Family of missing unionist launches network for search campaign

In front of her father's colleagues and human rights advocates on the first anniversary of the disappearance of union organizer William Lariosa, his daughter twenty-year old Yasmin spoke about pride and pain.

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Read more about the article Journalists mourn Julie Alipala, Mindanao conflict and peace reporter
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Journalists mourn Julie Alipala, Mindanao conflict and peace reporter

The news community mourns the death of Julie Alipala, journalist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer known for her conflict reporting and press freedom advocacy, who died of complications from endometrial cancer on Thursday April 3 in Zamboanga City.

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Davao’s new IPMR seeks cultural and environment empowerment

The newly installed Indigenous People’s Mandatory Representative (IPMR) of Davao's Sangguniang Panlungsod begins his term with plans of funding cultural development of the indigenous communities as well as their empowerment to protect the city's watershed.

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